this saturday, i’m playing in the irish preliminaries of the AXA dublin international piano competition. there are twelve of us, and i think the top five get through. i have been concentrating so much on my programme that this evening i said, enough is enough. i went to the shop and got popcorn, stuck on…
This evening, i decided to get down to it and make some finger puppets. they don’t really look it, but the stripey one is a tiger (rarrr) and the other one is a red pig. after talking to my sister and my mum about it, i’ve decided to send them to a baby that i…
i’m not a big fan of starchy foods, but i can never turn down a hot cross bun. stick it in the microwave for 20 seconds, cup of tea, hot raisins and currants: the perfect winter treat. here’s one steaming away nicely, blissfully unaware of its fate. i’ve never made hot cross buns before, so…
so after laying out my prints ever-so-gently because wet FB paper feels like it’s going to crumble in your hands… they’ve returned to their cardboard state and have done a better job at curling up than my curling tongs. to be honest, i’m not sure where to go from here with them. the good news…
remember this particular ball of wool?….. well, today it began its birth into something a bit more exciting. i’m using a narrower version of this pattern from knitty. i made the standard size before and i’m happy to report that it adapts very easily to a smaller size. here’s how it’s going so far… the…